"There is one thing…. that obtrudes itself when we wonder whether Leonardo da Vinci was really an overt homosexual: he was a very truthful person, almost naively so' Nothing was found while he was living, nor in what he left in his works; to stamp him as an overt homosexual. Unconsciously, however, his life was influenced by many factors which in our times often produce this aberration. Freud ingeniously took these few fragments and gave us a most provocative portrait of this outstanding man, ex ossicula Dinosauria, as it were. From the infantile phantasy which Leonardo recalled while he was still in his cradle, Freud masterfully reconstructed the whole unconscious psychic life of the most inscrutable, the most fascinating personage of the Renaissance.